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Journey To Joy by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the country continues to change and shift, everyone finds themselves on a Journey to Joy.America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone…The discovery of a thief leads Anthony and Carrie down a road they never envisioned. Annie creates a miracle for children with no hope.Felicia goes on a journey that will challenge her beyond anything she could have imagined... -
Silva Rerum by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOpowieść o historii, która nie dzieli, lecz łączy.Ta powieść stała się już częścią światowej klasyki.Anno Domini 1666. Dwór w Milkontach na Litwie. Mijają lata, odkąd Jan Maciej Narwojsz schronił się tu z rodziną po najeździe kozackim na Wilno... -
Šikmý kostel: románová kronika ztraceného města by Karin Lednická
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRománová kronika ztraceného města. Podtitul knihy lapidárně shrnuje příběh o někdejší pastevecké vesnici, která vystavěla svůj rozkvět na těžbě uhlí, aby o století později zašla na úbytě – také kvůli těžbě uhlí. Dnes už z výstavních budov a vznosné katedrály nezbylo nic. Jen šikmý kostel, který strmě a varovně ční do pusté krajiny... -
In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but through four collections of short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper has proven that hers is a wholly original talent --one that embraces readers in an ever-widening circle from one book to the next... -
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Thy Gold to Refine by Gerald N. Lund
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"The Lord said he would raise up a pure people. For what, Benjamin? Why does the Lord need a pure people?"Benjamin stared into Joseph's steady gaze for several seconds, then understanding came with absolute clarity. "Because there is yet work to be done," he said in awe.Joseph laughed softly. "That is exactly what I concluded. There is still much to be done... -
An Unexpected Frost by David Johnson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the second installment of the gripping Tucker’s Way series, Tucker faces the biggest crisis of her life.Tucker has finally overcome a lifelong fear of trusting others and let her kind neighbor, Ella, into her heart... -
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago...Categorized as:
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ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa Ashour, رضوى عاشور
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsثلاثية غرناطة هي ثلاثية روائية تتكون من ثلاث روايات للكاتبة المصرية رضوى عاشور و هم على التوالي: غرناطة - مريمة - الرحيل... -
Courage To Stand by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings#19 in The Bregdan Chronicles by Best-Selling Author, Ginny DyeReview: Best Historical Fiction series I have ever read! Keep them coming! ~ DottiAs the country continues to change and shift, everyone is challenged to find Courage to Stand.America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone…Carrie and Janie face the challenge of a horse plague that sweeps through America... -
Virgins of Paradise by Barbara Wood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe acclaimed author of Green City in the Sun and The Dreaming presents a magnificent saga about women in a rich, aristocratic Egyptian family who search for identity amid historic change. A fascinating portrait of an ancient nation mired in superstition, magic, and mythology as it emerges into the modern era...Categorized as:
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Truth Will Prevail by Gerald N. Lund
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTruth Will Prevail — the eagerly awaited third volume in the popular series The Work and the Glory — continues the gripping story of the fictional Steed family, a family acquainted with Joseph Smith and caught up in the grand events associated with the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ to the earth... -
A Time to Rejoice by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe heartwarming third instalment of the Rivenshaw series from bestselling saga writer Anna Jacobs... -
Four Classic Novels by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe complete novels of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion in one large, brand new and giftable hardcover with perfect dj...Categorized as:
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The Asylum Daughter by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBorn in the dark horrors of the Victorian Bedlam, Beth Thursday was a no-one. An inconsequential inconvenience.After eight years of dreaming of an unknown mother rescuing her from the workhouse, Beth is unexpectedly liberated to become an apprentice in Mr Whitaker's tailor's shop... -
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ڕازی بیلال by أحمد خيري العمري
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsئەوەی کە بە چیرۆکی بیلالی کوڕی ڕەباح کاریگەربێ شتێکەو، ئەوەش کە هەموو ژیانت بەهۆی ئەوەوە بگۆڕێ بە تەواوی شتێکی دیکەیە...هەروەها ئەوە ئەگەر لە کۆمەڵگایەکی عەرەبی موسڵماندا ڕووبدات شتێکە، بەڵام ئەی ئەگەر لە نیۆرکدا ڕووبدات؟سەرەڕای نامۆییەکەی بەڵام ئەوە ڕوویدا.. -
The Tomb: A Novel of Martha by Stephanie Landsem
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this captivating retelling of a classic biblical story, Jesus shocks the town of Bethany with Lazarus’s resurrection from the dead, leading Martha—a seemingly perfect woman trapped by the secrets of her past—to hope and a new life. Everyone in Bethany admires Martha—the perfect Jewish woman... -
A Breath of Hope by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNilda Carlson has been trying to save enough money to go to America for months, so when a letter from Einar and Gerd Strand arrives, offering to pay her ticket, she jumps at the chance. Her younger brother Ivar accompanies her, and they can't wait to join their brother Rune and his family in the northern forests of Minnesota... -
The Pickpocket Girl by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMolly had been a pickpocket for as long as she could remember. In Victorian London on the filth covered streets of the Old Nichol, everyone was a thief, it was a way of life, the only way to survive. Molly had spent her childhood perfecting her craft. A craft that had snatched her father from her, like she snatched pocket watches... -
Forever Safe by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRace Point, Massachusetts, 1876 Will she ever be able to stop running, even when she believes she’s finally safe? Heiress to a vast fortune, Victoria Cole has everything she wants, including the perfect fiancé. Having left two other men at the altar, Victoria is sure that now she’s found her true love and will finally live happily ever after... -
Return To Jarrow by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCatherine (Kitty) McMullen, is seventeen, restless and rebellious. Resentful of her mother Kate's new husband, she yearns for stories of the father she never knew and when her gossipy aunt divulges that he was a wealthy gentleman, Catherine's discontent with grimy, impoverished Jarrow grows... -
Whistledown Woman by Josephine Cox
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1898, Kathleen Wyman lies in labor at Bessington Hall, her husband Edward sure that she has been unfaithful to him. In his blind, jealous rage, he gives away the baby to gypsy Rona Parrish, summoned to help with the delivery. Kathleen, frenzied with grief, is soon locked away in an asylum... -
Daughters of Northern Shores by Joanne Bischof
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAven Norgaard understands courage. Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard, a Deaf man in rural Appalachia. That the Lord saw her along the winding journey and that Aven now carries Thor’s child are blessings beyond measure... -
Love's Fortune by Laura Frantz
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSheltered since birth at her Kentucky home, Rowena Ballantyne has heard only whispered rumors of her grandfather Silas's vast fortune and grand manor in Pennsylvania...Categorized as:
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'Til Morning Light by Ann Moore
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe crossed an ocean to escape the suffering of famine-torn Ireland. Haunted by loss, but determined to build a life in the New World, Gracelin O'Malley then crosses the country with her young children to accept a San Francisco sea captain's practical proposal of marriage. But when she arrives, he is not there, and the City of Gold is no place for widows and children... -
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Refuge by Dot Jackson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties . . . Dot Jackson is a true Southern voice, a master storyteller and an Appalachian treasure” (Dori Sanders, author of Clover and Her Own Place )... -
Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck by Hamka
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCerita ini berkisar tentang semangat juang Zainuddin, bagaimana merana dan melaratnya hidup Zainuddin setelah cintanya ditolak oleh keluarga Hayati. Kemudian beliau bangun semula dari segala kedukaan, membuka lembaran baru dalam hidupnya menjadi seorang penulis yang ternama dan berjaya. Ia menceritakan tentang kesetiaan, cinta dan kasihnya Zainuddin terhadap Hayati... -
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIreland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. The peripatetic life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes...Categorized as:
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كريسماس في مكة by أحمد خيري العمري
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsأقرباء فرقتهم الحرب، السياسة، التاريخ والجغرافية، ثم جاءت فرصة للقاءٍ يَلمُّ الشَّمْلَ بعد سنوات الغربة والاغتراب ...الوقت الوحيد الممكن لجمعهم هو إجازة الكريسماس، والمكان هو في مكة، لغرض العمرة.الأسماء هيَ هيَ ، الملامح تغيرت قليلاً أو كثيراً... -
Love's Long Journey & Love's Abiding Joy by Janette Oke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first series from the pen of Janette Oke, follows the lives of one family through three generations. Lets the reader see the impact that Christian love has on relationships despite adversity and hardship... -
The Corrigan Legacy: A captivating story of secrets and surprises by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, though rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose? Des has four children. His second wife Judith has just left him and he is overstretched financially...Categorized as:
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Carved in Stone by Margaret Manchester
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFROM AMAZON INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Northern England 1881. Sent away during her brother’s trial, Phyllis Forster returns home as mistress of Burnside Hall only to find that the Weardale people have turned against the Forster family, and she desperately wants to win back their respect... -
Never Far from Home by Mary Ellis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMary Ellis follows her captivating "Widow's Hope" with a new story from the heart of Holmes County, Ohio. In "Never Far From Home," fifteen-year-old Emma Miller finishes school, starts her own wool business, and is longing for someone to court... -
Tilly's Story by June Francis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan she leave her troubles behind to find true happiness? In the aftermath of the Great War, many are searching for a new life. But has Tilly missed her only chance for love? Since the end of the First World War, the residents of Victoria Crescent have been slowly rebuilding their lives... -
When the Clouds Go Rolling By by June Francis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe secrets of the past can never be forgotten An orphaned young woman is overjoyed to find a family she never knew existed, but has to come to terms with their troubled history. Since her parents died Clara O’Toole has lived with her grandmother, Bernie...Categorized as:
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A Season of Grace by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1910 Minnesota, Nilda Carlson's dreams are coming true. Though her first few months in America were difficult, her life now resembles the images that filled her daydreams in Norway. She and her younger brother Ivar live in their own house, just a short distance from her older brother and his family. Together they work the farm and fell trees for lumber... -
Step by Step by June Francis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill their friendship survive against all odds? In the early 1900s two girls see each other through good times and bad. But can their friendship endure when an dreadful act of violence sees their families turn against one another? Hannah Kirk and Alice Moran have been friends since childhood. Growing up in the back streets of Chester, they support each other through hard times... -
A Family Scandal by Kitty Neale
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings**A gritty and emotional family drama, from the Sunday Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn.**You can never leave a bad man behind…Mavis Pugh has had a hard life. Despised and abused throughout her teenage years, she turned to the first man who showed her kindness. But her new husband, Alec, quickly revealed himself to be a violent bully... -
When I Fall in Love by Wendy Lindstrom
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Mail Order Bride He Doesn’t Want — A Woman He Can’t Resist Hal Grayson has just buried his brother. He doesn’t need any more surprises — especially a mail order bride that he didn’t order. But the beautiful and strong-willed Miss Mitchell has other ideas, and the woman turns his life upside down...Categorized as:
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A Sister's Test by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Hostettler family continues to face an unseen enemy who randomly attacks their property. Despite the unrest, Ruth, the second oldest sister, is about to realize her greatest dream—to marry and raise a n family with Martin Gingerich. But in one horrific moment, her world is shattered... -
The Love Letters by Beverly Lewis
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen her sister falls gravely ill, twenty-year-old Marlena Wenger takes on the responsibility of caring for her infant niece, Angel Rose. Worried that this turn of events portends a more complicated future than he is prepared for, her beau ends their relationship. Marlena is devastated, but is determined to give Angel Rose the best care possible... -
The Third Daughter by Talia Carner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a remarkable story, inspired by little-known true events, about the thousands of young Jewish women who were trafficked into prostitution at the turn of the 20th century, and whose subjugation helped build Buenos Aires.The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms... -
The Immigrants by Howard Fast
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn a passionate, multigenerational novel set against the backdrop of San Francisco, the son of an Italian fisherman struggles from the rubble of the great earthquake to build a shipping empire. Reprint... -
A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered a miscarriage, and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life...Categorized as:
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Hannah's Choice by Jan Drexler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHannah Yoder loves her quiet life on the banks of the Conestoga Creek. In 1842, this corner of Lancaster County is settled and peaceful--yet problems lurk beneath the placid faade. Hannah's father worries about the spread of liberal ideas from their Mennonite and Brethren neighbors. And Hannah blames herself for a tragedy that struck their home nine years ago... -
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The Secret Years: An emotional drama of love and survival by Judith Lennox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA moving story about life in the East Anglian Fens after the First World War, evoking the emotions of the men who came through their ordeals and the women who survived the trauma of separation.During the golden summer of 1914, four young people played in the gardens of Drakesden Abbey... -
The Beachcomber by Ines Thorn, Kate Northrop
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the second epic novel of The Island of Sylt trilogy by bestselling author Ines Thorn, a young woman must fight to clear her family’s name in order to claim her true love. Germany’s North Sea Coast: The Island of Sylt, 1711 It’s the age of whaling and beachcombing, and life is hard on Sylt—especially for women forced to get by on their own... -
The Light Before Day by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course... -
The Virgin Who Seduced the Duke by Scarlett Osborne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhy crave for her body when you can touch her soul?Pained by the disappearance of her sister, marriage is the last thing on Lady Daphne Fitzroy’s mind. When it’s announced she has to meet with an alluring Duke, she does everything in her power to delay this fate…Anthony De Clare, the Duke of Kingham, hides great pain... -
The Duke's Daughters Series by Rose Pearson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive full-length Regency romance stories about the Duke of Westbrook’s four daughters. Pushed into marrying to secure their future, each daughter’s path to love and marriage is filled with obstacles, misunderstanding, and sometimes, danger! The fifth book is the prequel to the series and follows the future Duke of Westbrook and future wife, and shows how love is powerful motivator for change...Categorized as:
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Torrent Falls by Jan Watson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe year is 1888; Copper is a young widow with a baby trying to make a go of the ramshackle farm she received from her father in Troublesome Creek. Copper's life seems as dilapidated as the farm as she struggles to come to terms with her shattered world. Desperate to rekindle the easy faith she had as a child, she searches for peace and God's direction in the serenity of the Kentucky mountains...
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